Pacific strategy had been kept fluid , mainly because of the sharp differences between General Douglas MacArthur and ... Vice Admiral Soc McMorris , in charge of the greeting MICE Joseph J. “ Jocko " Clark Forrest P. Sherman Twenty ...
The U-Boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were crucial to keeping Russia in the War; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; allied naval supremacy made the D-Day landings ...
Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework of the United States.
In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time.
"The third in a series, this collection of interpretive, biographical essays on the admirals of the new steel navy continues the story of the development of the American naval tradition...
Famous American Admirals
Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, ...
Winston Churchill–Sir Edward Grey 21.8.1914: Gilbert, M., Winston S. Churchill. Vol. III Companion Part I, London, 1972, p. 48. French, D., British Strategy and War Aims: 1914–1916, London, 1986, pp. x–xi. A very important book that ...
" Submarine Warfare in the Pacific: The History of the Fighting Under the Waves between Japan and America during World War II analyzes the underwater fighting between the Allies and Japan across the Pacific theater.
More than 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II. This meticulous study is a concentrated look at Naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and ...
Burke's World War II heroics and unprecedented three terms as chief of naval operations are recounted in this stirring biography.